Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [adj] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prof Wynne Godley , of Cambridge University , who has long been pessimistic about the economy 's future , expects 3.4 million unemployed by the end of this year and 3.6 million by the end of 1994 . |
| 2 | Prof Wynne Godley , of Cambridge University , who has long been pessimistic about the economy 's future , expects 3.4 million unemployed by the end of this year and 3.6 million by the end of 1994 . |
| 3 | He has always been paranoid about his personal security . |
| 4 | The NI has always been sceptical about the value of government-to-government overseas aid , which too easily finds its way into the pockets of an elite or is wasted on the wrong kind of project . |
| 5 | The Home Office has also been remiss about security devices , an important subject that has been debated at length today . |
| 6 | Singapore has also been concerned about the role of Vietnam in Southeast Asia . |
| 7 | In the UK the industry has been losing sales estimated at one million cases a year and has also been concerned about the message being sent from this country to export markets , implying that high excise duty levels may be acceptable . |
| 8 | Colin Wilson , however , may have been justified in remarking years later that he has never been angry about anything and Kingsley Amis has grown angry by growing conservative and old . |
| 9 | He has never been enthusiastic about it , regarding the growing grassroots demand for proportional representation as a distraction from the main issues facing the party , but aides insist he now has an open mind about the outcome of the review . |
| 10 | So , having consistently been right about why and how the Tories would win , I was wrong when it came to the point . |
| 11 | ‘ And my feelings are telling me that we 've all been wrong about what I want to do . |
| 12 | ‘ I know now that we 've all been wrong about what I want to do with my — ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You were very tired , ’ Adam said , ‘ and we 've all been worried about Elinor . ’ |
| 14 | We 've all been worried about her . |
| 15 | But he had obviously been right about Damian Flint . |
| 16 | Beth had long been concerned about Cissie 's ‘ wanderings ’ . |
| 17 | Not having done very well at school ( not even allowed to sit the Oxbridge exams ) , she had nevertheless been diligent about her piano lessons , and was in fact quite good on the instrument . |
| 18 | The Observer had already been excited about it in its preview the weekend before . |
| 19 | I 'd always wanted to be a comedian at school , I 've always been obsessive about comedy , and if I 'd been rubbish it would have been a bit problematic . ’ |
| 20 | I 've always been honest about it . ’ |
| 21 | I 'VE always been bashful about going into the ring , so early on I decided to cover it up . |
| 22 | I 've always been dippy about Charity from a child . |
| 23 | Yes , yes , her mother had always been honest about her lack of initiative in that direction . |
| 24 | Dad had always been fanatical about security at night ; he even bolted the inside doors . |
| 25 | A company that had always been paranoiac about labour unions , it should have noticed that it was suddenly at the mercy of customers ' unions . |
| 26 | He had always been sentimental about horses — too much so , according to his father . |
| 27 | So she climbed the fire escape , briskly for she had always been brisk about everything , even making love . |
| 28 | The embarrassment of the British establishment in December 1989 , caused a great deal of well-deserved Schadenfreude among those who had always been sceptical about the Ceauşescus . |
| 29 | Wealth did not make him lavish , however ; he had always been careful about money — indeed , he was economical in all areas of life , even in small matters such as ensuring that all the tea in a tea-pot had actually been drunk — and Joseph Chiari has remembered how he kept a regular account of his expenses in a pocket notebook . |
| 30 | She had ever been curious about Benedict 's background , and now more so than ever , when everything hinged on his moral claim to Merchiston Lodge . |